Peter Mensah

Peter Mensah
ComicCon Spartacus Press Release 2009
Born	(1959-08-27) 27 August 1959 (age 65) Chiraa, Bono Region, Ghana
Nationality	British, Ghanaian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present

Peter Mensah (born 27 August 1959) is a Ghanaian-British actor, based in Canada.^[1] He is best known for his role as Oenomaus on the Starz television series Spartacus (2010–2013). He has also appeared in such films as Tears of the Sun, Hidalgo, The Incredible Hulk, 300, and Avatar.

Early life

Mensah was born in Chiraa, Ghana, and comes from an academic family. He was born to parents from the Brong Ahafo Region,^[2] and moved to Hertfordshire, England, with his father, Peter Osei Mensah,^[3] an architect engineer, his mother, a writer, and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah began practising martial arts at the age of six.^[4][5][6]

Though he had done drama in school, Mensah originally studied engineering, and arrived in Canada as an engineer for British Gas, developing gas fields at Morecambe Bay

Career

Mensah's film credits include Avatar, 300, Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and The Incredible Hulk. He also stars in the short film The Seed, produced and directed by Linkin Park's DJ Joe Hahn. He has made television appearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven, and La Femme Nikita. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E Network series A Nero Wolfe Mystery and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

He voiced and provided his likeness for Sgt. Zach Hammond in EA's video game Dead Space.

Mensah played the character Oenomaus in Spartacus and was on the Spartacus Panel at Comic Con 2009 and 2011.^[7] He had a recurring role in the fifth season of True Blood.

He is the voice of Predaking, the dragon-like leader of the Predacons in Transformers: Prime.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Striking Poses	Hunky Receptionist
2000	Bruiser	Skinhead
2000	Bless the Child	Good Samaritan Janitor
2000	The Perfect Son	Tall Gay Basher
2001	Harvard Man	Cyrill The Butler
2001	Jason X	Sgt. Brodski
2002	Triggerman	Boxer
2002	Cypher	Vault Security Guard
2003	Tears of the Sun	Terwase
2004	Hidalgo	Jaffa
2006	The Seed		Short film
2006	300	Persian Messenger
2008	The Incredible Hulk	General Joe Greller
2009	Avatar	Akwey
2014	300: Rise of an Empire	Persian Messenger
2016	The Second Sound Barrier	Thelonious Courage as The Powerhouse	Short film
2016	Kevin Hart: What Now?	African Dictator
2018	The Scorpion King: Book of Souls	Nebserek	Direct-to-video
2019	Rise	Governor Gaddo
2021	Snake Eyes	Blind Master
2022	The Devil Conspiracy	Archangel Michael
2024	Gladiator II	Jubartha

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble	Quaka	TV movie
2000	Relic Hunter	Witch Doctor	Episode: "Cross OF Voodoo"
2000	Deep in The City	Lang	Episode: "Gorky Parkette"
2001	Blue Murder	Marlon Anderson	2 episodes
2001	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Receptionist, Arthur	Episodes: "The Doorbell Rang", "Over My Dead Body" Pt.1/Pt.2
2001–02	Witchblade	Hecter "Moby" Mobius	3 episodes
2002	Tracker	Marak	Episode: "Native Son"
2002	Conviction	T-Bone	TV movie
2005	Star Trek: Enterprise	Daniel Greaves	2 episodes
2008	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	General Perry	2 episodes
2010	Spartacus: Blood and Sand	Oenomaus / Doctore	Main cast
2011	Spartacus: Gods of the Arena	Oenomaus / Doctore	Main cast
2012	True Blood	Kibwe
2012	Spartacus: Vengeance	Oenomaus / Doctore	Main cast
2013	Transformers: Prime	Predaking (voice)	Recurring role (season 3)
2013	Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising	Predaking (voice)	TV movie
2013	Burn Notice	Marco Cabral	Episode: "Nature of the Beast"
2015–16	Sleepy Hollow	Hidden One
2017–2018	Midnight, Texas	Lemuel Bridger
2018	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Qovas	Recurring role (season 5)
2019	Departure	Levi Hall	Main cast (season 1)

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Dead Space	Zach Hammond

References

1. "PETER MENSAH | Jack & Jill".
2. "Starz - Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Peter Mensah". Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
3. Donkoh, Ebenezer (9 November 2017). "Hollywood Star Peter Mensah's Father Passes Away in Kumasi - NYDJ Live". nydjlive.com. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
4. "Slice of SciFi Interview With "The Hulk's" Peter Mensah | Slice of SciFi". 12 June 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
5. "Ghanaian-British actor Peter Mensah in Ghana". MyJoyOnline.com. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
6. "Peter Mensah: Movies, TV, and Bio | Prime Video". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
7. "The Doctore is in: Spartacus' Peter Mensah exclusive interview", 18 November 2011. Archived 24 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Peter Mensah at IMDb